With winter becoming a slow, distant, shivery memory, I'm ready to tackle some of my old obsessions and hobbies that have been (sadly) neglected for a while, like gardening and design (above).
What hobbies will I re- indulge in this Spring? … [Read more...]

How can cooking healthy meals make me healthier?
I can speak from experience: It's taken me from 90 pounds heavier in late August of 2012 to where I am now--a slimming, sassy work in progress. I love that I not only can share … [Read more...]

Vitamin A is a not only a vitamin, but an important antioxidant. Fighting damage from free radicals, which are oxygen molecules with unpaired electrons (the molecules grab electrons from other molecules and damage them), Vitamin A is one tough cookie … [Read more...]

Mornings I'm usually scrambling more than my eggs. Four kids, a husband, a dog that thinks the neighborhood needs to be monitored, and a cat with an extreme case of ambivalence--it's a lot to manage. … [Read more...]

It might be cold outside, but it is in here, now, too--so to speak. With germs bombarding your living space from everywhere, your family is coming home with more than you bargained for: germs.
Whether post nasal drip is finding its way to sleeves, … [Read more...]

Did you know today, January 29, 2013, is National Vitamin Day?
It's the day when the Amino Fairy comes out and sprinkles good wishes for immune system health under the pillows of good boys and girls who--Wait. What do you mean there's no such a … [Read more...]

Pictures: top: My mother's buttons and some of her special meaningful items that were sitting in a jewelry box gathering dust I framed and kept. The skeleton key actually works an old lock to my husband's mother's house. bottom: More frames with … [Read more...]

What can the educational institution, with its share of cooties and hand sanitizers, crayons, crashes and crushes, teach us in terms of living the best lives that we can? Follow along, and put your own luscious lesson plan together, based on these … [Read more...]

Salmon salad is a delicious, healthy, feel good food. sourceToday's guest post comes from the delicious, vivacious Katie Brind'Amour, a phenomenal freelance writer and food aficionado eating her way through Columbus, Ohio, one delicious dish at a … [Read more...]

Winter begins its creep, and thus days become shorter and colder. Your body likely thinks famine is coming. And thus the holidays come in wearing big, bad boots, ready to kick your metabolic butt up one side and down the other.
How can you prepare … [Read more...]

Hands-on learning is an important lesson for young adults learning to live on their own in an uncertain world filled with clever (sometimes deceptive) labeling, limited time and often meager resources. Companies like Albertsons and the internet make … [Read more...]